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List of toll bridges § United States; Category:Lists of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record; Category:Lists of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places; Category:Lists of river crossings in the United States; Other topics. Transport in the United States; Rail transportation in the United States
The clearance below required under bridges for the largest ships—container ships, ocean liners and cruise ships—is around 220 feet (67 m) so there are often bridges with approximately that height located in coastal cities with bays or inlets, such as New York City's Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge and San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. [1]
Manchac Swamp bridge, carries Interstate 55 over the Manchac Swamp; second-longest bridge by total length in the world: 36.710 km (22.811 mi) Natchez-Vidalia Bridge, Vidalia and Natchez, Mississippi; Norfolk Southern Lake Pontchartrain Bridge – longest railroad bridge in the US: 9.3 km (5.8 mi) Old Vicksburg Bridge, Delta and Vicksburg ...
This list of tallest bridges includes bridges with a structural height of at least 200 metres (660 ft). The structural height of a bridge is the maximum vertical distance from the uppermost part of a bridge, such as the top of a bridge tower, to the lowermost exposed part of the bridge, where its piers, towers, or mast pylons emerge from the surface of the ground or water.
Lists of river crossings in the United States (9 C, 49 P) Pages in category "Lists of bridges in the United States" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
This category includes articles on individual bridges found within the United States, subcategorized by the state in which it is located. Bridges that connect states are found in several subcategories.
This is a list of the world's longest bridges that are more than 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) in length sorted by their full length above land and water. The main span is the longest span without any ground support.
Durkee, Jackson, "World's Longest Bridge Spans", National Steel Bridge Alliance, 24 May 1999 (out of date) The World's Greatest Bridges, Archive.org copy of The Bridge over the Strait of Messina website (out of date and other errors) List of longest spans, Pub Quiz Help (includes bridges that have not yet been completed)